Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [verb] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By this time the law relating to the protection of the king 's deer within the ‘ purlieus ’ or forest outskirts had become more clearly defined . |
| 2 | Although there are regional differences , social and marital roles have become less clearly defined and structured than they were half a century ago . |
| 3 | Contributions which he and his workmates have made so far exceed a splendid £1,576 . |
| 4 | Nothing the Conservatives have said so far has caught my fancy , still less warmed my heart ; or , I am glad to say , shocked me to the core . |
| 5 | As the importance of caring for carers has become more widely recognised , so too has the realisation that making better support for carers a reality is the responsibility not of a single agency but of many . |
| 6 | Polls suggested that Kennedy 's approval rating amongst his Massachusetts constituents had fallen so dramatically following the episode that he might fail to secure re-election in 1994 . |
| 7 | Never mind what you read and hear to the contrary ; your plants have had quite enough shock as it is without adding to it . |
| 8 | This plan is useful only for people whose incomes have risen fast enough to meet payments on the new loan and the debt on their old mortgage . |
| 9 | Like other Central Europeans who had lived and grumbled under the Habsburgs , Hungarians have had even more to grumble about since . |
| 10 | In the five minutes spent walking fast enough to shake them off , I 'm in the crowds in the main square , Djemaa el Fna . |
| 11 | Certain teams did become very loosely identified with Catholic or Protestant support in Liverpool and Manchester , but this was never a prominent feature of English football or a significant source of violence . |
| 12 | Finubar 's reign was marred only by the great Chaos Incursion when it looked as if the Dark Powers had returned once more to claim the world . |
| 13 | At the same time , as a result of Spanish-American fiction 's growing popularity , the work of the earlier writers mentioned became more widely known and some of them went on to enhance their reputation by producing new works in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 14 | You may need to adjust it at the centre on long pieces since the ends tend to pull rather tightly to start with . |
| 15 | The question is whether prices and mortgage rates have fallen far enough to ensure that this position will be reached in the near future . |
| 16 | None of Mao 's or Mr Deng 's heirs has survived long enough to assume fully their designated role as successor . |
| 17 | Workplaces continued to get ever more choked up , not just by strikes , but by restrictions on who was allowed to do what , a refusal to adopt new technology , and so on . |
| 18 | It did result in er an improvement in the share situation and in the er strength of the pound , but I understand the share prices have dropped rapidly again following further news of oil price increases . |
| 19 | It was , therefore , a proud Rainer Zobel — the Kaiserslautern coach — who said : ‘ My players have done very well to come here and succeed . |
| 20 | If the ropes do jam then please remember that the great Giusto Gervasutti met his death during just such a retrieval operation . |
| 21 | There are a number of refinements designed to produce even better smooths . |
| 22 | That campaign involves a series of ballots designed to last long enough to prevent the closures , while stopping short of a Yes vote on opting-out . |
| 23 | Those endeavours were proved to be somewhat premature as no real bombing of cities occurred until the following year , and many of the children had returned home only to have to be again evacuated when the bombing did start . |
| 24 | This brings us to the third phase , in which linguists have become more generally prepared to question the notion of linguistic equality and to accept that language differences might give rise to difficulties which are not due solely to the social and linguistic misconceptions of teachers . |
| 25 | National corporations have become transnational corporations , and the concentration at the top of major world industries has become even more concentrated in the hands of transnationals . |
| 26 | Others claim to have never really supported the incorrect view in the first place or , if they did , it was only to show that it was inconsistent . |
| 27 | Taken together , however , these figures mean no more and no less than services managing to expand rapidly enough to maintain their overall world share whereas manufacturing steadily dropped way behind in this race . |
| 28 | Since then there has been a marked divergence between school and university ; students have become less well equipped , and academics , particularly young ones , have become more high-powered , ambitious , and professionalised . |
| 29 | It has often occurred in the fields of social security and local government , in which the few local authority victories in the courts have proved extremely short lived . |
| 30 | They have n't all , I accept , been greeted with standing ovations , and some unions have moved more quickly to accept change than others . |